In high school basketball, Pontiac needed overtime to get past IVC, 81-77. Cameron Dawson led the Indians to victory with 20 points. Prairie Central fell to Central Catholic, 70-27, at Fairbury. Flanagan-Cornell topped Lexington, 64-49. Ridgeview bested Deer Creek-Mackinaw, 51-40, Fieldcrest rolled to a 65-35 win over Putnam County.
In the girls regionals at Flanagan, host Flanagan-Cornell-Woodland edged Kewanee in overtime, 56-55, and will play number two seed Fieldcrest tonight.
El Paso-Gridley won its regional matchup at Tremont, taking down Olympia, 40-18.
We have high school hoops tonight from Cullom as Tri-Point entertain Dwight. Marc Strauss will be at courtside tonight on Classic Hits 98.9 just before 7 p.m.
Illinois State football coach Brock Spack plans to introduce some more recruits today for the second National Signing Day of the season.
The Chicago Blackhawks had a second-period goal disallowed and that proved costly as the Hawks suffer their third straight loss, 3-2, to Calgary. The Blackhawks fall seven points behind in the race for a playoff berth.
Just as the Indianapolis Colts were set to introduce Josh McDaniels as their new head coach, the New England offensive coordinator reneged on the deal and says he will stay with the Patriots.
Bloomington’s indoor football team will be a team without a league this season. a judge has allowed Champions Professional Indoor Football to block the Edge from playing in another league. The Edge had planned to move to the Indoor Football League which the franchise had played previously. So it will play an independent schedule instead.
